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Self Management for the New Manager

By Bob Selden · 17 years ago

This is one of the hardest articles I have had to write. I have written many articles on how to manage – others, but managing oneself is a bit different. To start with, each one ...

Is There An Increasing Need For Leadership, Or Is It Just Hype? 5 pointers for potential leaders

By Bob Selden · 17 years ago

Of all the things that have changed over the last few centuries, and particularly the massive amount of change experienced during the last 100 years, the one constant that remains is the need for good ...

How Can You Tell If You Have What It Takes To Be A Leader?

By Bob Selden · 17 years ago

Finding out "How am I doing?" has always been a thorny issue for managers, particularly when the issue is about "How good a leader am I?". It's relatively easy to get feedback on results (e.g. ...

Leadership – Do We Know What It Is? 4 Pointers To Start You On The Road To Becoming A Leader

By Bob Selden · 17 years ago

A great deal of work has been done by many authors and researchers in trying to identify and define "leadership". The vast body of research has focused on leadership traits, habits, competencies, behaviours, styles, values, ...

Five Of The Worst Mistakes Managers Can Make And How To Avoid Them

By Bob Selden · 17 years ago

I well remember the first time I was “corrected” by a manager. I was a young bank clerk and had received a transaction that was incorrect, from a much more senior person (a manager) in ...

Managers – Do You Have To Run A Motivational Training Session? - 10 steps to ensure success!

By Bob Selden · 17 years ago

So, you’re a manager. So, you know you have to run a training session or a team meeting for your team (for the first time) that needs to be motivational and you’re not a professional ...

Motivating Others – What’s The Real Answer?

By Bob Selden · 18 years ago

So, economics and statistics are the flavour of the month, or more specifically “Freakonomics” (Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Penquin Books 2006). In a quote from Levitt’s website, “Through forceful storytelling and wry ...

How To Select A Consultant - The Three Imperatives

By Bob Selden · 18 years ago

As a manager many years ago when faced with my first challenge of selecting an external consultant, I found myself all at sea. Fortunately for me, I intuitively hit two of the three selection targets. ...

Are You Positive or Negative? Does Your Behaviour Impact Those Around You And Can You Change It?

By Bob Selden · 18 years ago

Some years ago, I read a report by Spiro Zavos in the sports columns of my SMH newspaper, which described the behaviour of a football coach during a very tense finals game. The antics of ...

Email Etiquette – What’s The Missing Link ?

By Bob Selden · 18 years ago

I looked up the web on email ettiquete and found many sites, yet only one of the 10 sites on the first page of Google, dealt with the real issue around email etiquette. However, I ...

Who’s Got The Monkey Now? Part 2: How To Make Delegation Work For You

By Bob Selden · 18 years ago

In my earlier article “Who’s Got The Monkey Now? How To Find Out How Well You Manage Your Time” (http://www.nationallearning.com.au/index_files/HowToMakePeopleFeelBetterAtWork.htm) , I suggested that you may be caring for a cageful of monkeys (other people’s ...